Most Saturdays if I’m out I go to the Temple Bar Food Market and have prawn-fried noodles at the little Asian stand there (teh intarwebs tell me it is called The Sushi Hut), which is run by a rather fierce little Asian woman and her much more mellow partner-husband-thing. I’m reasonably certain they put crack in the noodles, or something, because they are ZOMG good. So at least once a month, and more often if I can, I stop by there. Last time, the fierce Asian woman said, “Can I…
Author: mizkit
black hole
Once more my blogging efforts have fallen into a deep black hole. This time it is the Black Hole of Vaccination Sickness, Head Colds and Revisions, which are not, if you’re interested, a combination I recommend. The revisions, actually, are quite mild. (The head cold less so, and the Vaccination Sickness not at all, although it was at least mercifully brief.) I am performing what refers to as a commaectomy. Also a semi-colonectomy and a long-sentencesectomy. But both the editor and the agent gave me what are essentially line edits,…
Baba Yaga’s Daughter
BABA YAGA’S DAUGHTER & OTHER TALES OF THE OLD RACES has been submitted unto its publishers, the good folk at Subterranean Press, and I am both pleased and excited about this. There are seven stories, four of which are entirely new, and they cover a span starting some 200 years ago up until a little while after the trilogy ends. I hope people will like them. :) I’ll let you all know as things proceed!
How To Write Magical Words
So while I was off having a baby, the people at Magical Words, the writing blog I used to be a part of, did something cool. Editor and writer Edmund Schubert (best known to long-time readers of this blog as the guy who threw himself through a hedge to greet me) put together a writing how-to book gleaned from the posts my fellow bloggers and I had done. It’s called HOW TO WRITE MAGICAL WORDS, and it is frankly awesome. Seriously, that sounds all tooting our own horn (and it…
wow.
I just turned in the final edits on SPIRIT DANCES, which means the Walker Papers series is officially 2/3rds in the can. In celebration, I give you the cover! (Behind the cut, ’cause it’s large.)